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Criminal Code Act 1899
sch.1-sec.501False statements for the purpose of registers of births, deaths, and marriages
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### sch.1-sec.501 False statements for the purpose of registers of births, deaths, and marriages
Any person who knowingly, and with intent to procure the same to be inserted in a register of births, deaths, or marriages, makes any false statement touching any matter required by law to be registered in any such register, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for 3 years.
sch 1 pt 6 div 3 ch 49 s 501 amd 1988 No. 88 s 5 sch 2